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DRIVING

The Clarkson Review: Kia Sportage GT-Line S

If it’s got enough USB ports, nobody cares if it accelerates like a tortoise

The Sunday Times

While sitting in the perma-traffic jam that clogs up the A40 in western London the other day, I had time for a good look round and I realised that I hated every single car I could see.

There was some kind of MG SUV and the usual array of Toyota Priuses, and the inevitable Tesla, and a boxy Ford that had exactly the same number of outstanding features as a sheet of absolutely nothing at all. And not one of these cars had been built to be fast or fun or exciting in any way.

When I first started to write about cars, fun was really all that mattered. And fun was measured in terms of how quickly the car got from zero to 60